C.A.S.A.
A photographic essay by Ricardo Junqueira
A photographic essay by Ricardo Junqueira
Ricardo Junqueira, from Brasilia, moved from São Paulo to Natal in 1996, and has travelled ever since, on business and for leisure, all over the State of Rio Grande do Norte. He has thus had the opportunity to get to know and appreciate the diversity and richness of the local architecture. He has focused on the culture and peculiarities of the working class: the value placed on the land, their building techniques, the delicate gardening of borders near the rustic little houses.
Through his lenses, he captures and registers the aesthetical and social aspects of the harsh realities of life in the interior and savannah in Rio Grande do Norte. Climate there is what determines the way the population relates to the land: feast and drought, lost harvests, abandoned houses.
The photographic documentation represented by these images was conducted over the course of six years. It was made into an exhibition entitled CASA [HOUSE] and included material ranging from 55X22cm to 1.00x2.00m in size, all on photographic paper.
The photographs are manipulated artistically using alternative methods of developing in black and white. Each print is unique, retaining the original photographic record, whilst having added elements which allow for the artist's personal expression.
Ricardo Junqueira uses black and white photography developed using a brush (selective developing), which are treated in the lab and toned with copper and selenium . All prints are produced to conservation standards.
Through his lenses, he captures and registers the aesthetical and social aspects of the harsh realities of life in the interior and savannah in Rio Grande do Norte. Climate there is what determines the way the population relates to the land: feast and drought, lost harvests, abandoned houses.
The photographic documentation represented by these images was conducted over the course of six years. It was made into an exhibition entitled CASA [HOUSE] and included material ranging from 55X22cm to 1.00x2.00m in size, all on photographic paper.
The photographs are manipulated artistically using alternative methods of developing in black and white. Each print is unique, retaining the original photographic record, whilst having added elements which allow for the artist's personal expression.
Ricardo Junqueira uses black and white photography developed using a brush (selective developing), which are treated in the lab and toned with copper and selenium . All prints are produced to conservation standards.
